St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11


TWENTY-FIVE of $50 and expenditures
CENTS DAYlOf $3.50 per month
leaving S21.50 for our clothing. We can
dress very nicely on that and save some
money. too"
! made no doubt she could; but II
had figured too often that way myself to
be certain of the practical result when
l was factor in the problem.
tied my own limbs, and my wife
kept the knots secure.
We did not vary one iOt from the
plan of campaign she mapped out. EY-
cry morning | was paid my allowance.
% cents; every Saturday night my sal
airy was religiOusly paid over by me to
Mrs. Jones. She paid the bills, and,
while never for one moment playing
the ShreW with me. for Snch a character
was impossible to her, she gave me no
more than enough to pay for any att
Gle of clothing | proposed to buy. FIRE.
quently | tried to wrench myself free
of the ropes, and it strained her pretty
fingers to keep the knots secure; but in
the end 1t was she who conquered.
So the days went by until the SHOWS
that fell during the honeymoon were
gone, until congratulations had thinned
down to one Il week, until the leaves
had sent forth tender shoots and the Ii
lacs were in bloom. The changing
season found me somewhat over
worked, and fit subject for
that inSidiOuS disease. spring fever.
My physician advised rest, and
even at the loss of my salary |
was forced to take a week away from
business. One can not do a great amount
of foreign travel in week, and even the
great ambition of my life-tO see Cali
fOrnia-cOuld not be achieved in so short
VDnff hnYr 70 lot inn rla-a
we could go to get the needed rest, Mrs
Jones suggested quiet town in Iowa
where she was born. 1t was a happy
suggestion, for the trip could be made
by boat all the way, and the town was
not too distant to reach and return from
within the time of my vacation.
1t was the steamer Sydney we decided
to take: not palatial vessel, not
racer, but clean, carefully managed
SteTnwheel, upper Mississippi boat.
There were but five other passengers
that cool May afternoon when the sgd
ney drew her lose away from the
wharfboat and pointed straight away
up the river. under the great bridge, by
the elevators, saw mills water works
and the long stretches of bottoms where
the river ''f1OaterS" live in cabins.
AS the sun went down that evening it
burned the city quite away, and the
boat went sounding on between low
timbered banks, from which. later,
there appeared the red of pilot lights
and the deep orange CLEAN of cottage
lamps.
| have said there were five other pas
sengers. Two were variety actor and
his wife, also professional. They were
not brilliant lights in their profession.
but probably given TO character song
and dance actS-the sort who fill inter
ludeS between the maStOdOn QuaTtette
and Mile. Viola ,Iaberi, the Slack-wire
performer, with songs ending in this
wise:
Meet me at the garden gate,
(Hwo jig steps and a walk around)
When the moon is shining bright.
"a double breakdOwn.)
Our attention was first attracted to
this couple at supper time. They did
not appear at the table, and, on account
of the small number of passengers,
their absence was noted. A glance
down the cabin was sufficient to eX-
plain the situation. They were seated
on one of the sofas deYOuring a basket
lunch, which had been purchased for
few cents. In this manner they saved
nearly One-half the passage from st.
Louis to St. Paul-the latter their desti-
nation. | saw my wife looking their
way, and, fearing that her providence
was growing TO be as much an incon-
Venience to her as my imPrOvidence had
been to me. | fastened to take her mind
away from the subject with fippant
tale.
81 was thinking" she said, her eyes
still on the rear of the cabin. that |
would like to send "a
II WARM m fron s04 PSt ts: W.
bic. | wonder if it & MHS7 "a
would please OF Of yAM%IS4 HI
fend them" - %BE%TfNN
The other passen u LAWt Az
gers were all old Ger E7N kI@
man woman, a woman WIN ~